Our society Quotes · Page 6

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values…

— Charles A. Reich

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for…

— Tim Bishop

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

— Christina Ricci

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't…

— Sam Keen

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

— Oren Moverman

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct…

— Michael Sandel

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

— Paul Newman

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

— Keith Miller

In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against…

— Tariq Ramadan

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I…

— Rand Paul

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that…

— Vidal Sassoon

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so…

— Anonymous

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of…

— Howard Cosell

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will…

— Jim DeMint

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business…

— Jared Diamond

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about…

— Rita Mae Brown

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to…

— Jacques Monod

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the…

— David Graeber

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,…

— Michael Horton

Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually…

— Pope Benedict XVI

How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety…

— David Suzuki

It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's…

— Dennis Kucinich

Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions…

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

— Anonymous

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

— Anonymous

Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

— Loraine Hutchins

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

— Janet Street-Porter

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally,…

— Kitty Kelley

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

— Natalie Merchant

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

— Irakli Okruashvili

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

— Jane Goodall

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

— Dallin H. Oaks

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

— Clifford Stoll

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end…

— John W. Gardner

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

— George Lucas

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

— Richard Hamming

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

— Jacque Fresco

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

— Greg Mortenson